Classic Plays Presented in One Night Only Staged Readings by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (1301 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94709)
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All offers for Staged Readings by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley have expired.
The last date listed for Staged Readings by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley was Tuesday February 14, 2012 / 8:00pm (Henry IV).
2 Goldstar Member Reviews
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too bad you missed this wonderful evening.Written on Feb 08 2012
I hope to enjoy The Real Thing WHEN
our Actors Ensemble puts a run of this show. Loved it - Well done, I say!
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Really nice play. I enjoyed it very much. Performance was fantastic.Written on Feb 01 2012
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Quotes & Highlights
- Check out the Actors Ensemble of Berkeley production of Arcadia, also on Goldstar.
Description
January 31, 2012: Proof by David Auburn
2001 Tony Award winner for best play, Proof concerns Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a recently deceased mathematical genius in his fifties and professor at the University of Chicago, and her struggles with mathematical genius and mental illness. Catherine had cared for her father through a lengthy mental illness. Now as she and Hal, one of his former students, sort through his papers (which appear to contain a groundbreaking solution to a long-sought mathematical dilemma), she must sort out not only her feelings for her father but also the budding of a relationship with Hal. Throughout, the play explores Catherine's fear of following in her father's footsteps, both mathematically and mentally and her desperate attempts to stay in control.
With: Kathleen Davis, Rachel Ferensowicz, Bruce Kaplan, and Alfred Webre
February 7, 2012: The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Matthew Surrence
Tom Stoppard's (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia) The Real Thing examines the nature of honesty, and its use of a play within a play is one of many levels on which the author teases the audience with the difference between semblance and reality. The play focuses on the relationship between Henry and Annie, an actress who is part of a committee to free Brodie, a Scottish soldier imprisoned for burning a memorial wreath during a protest. Originally premiering in London, the 1984 Broadway production won the Tony Award for Best Play, and a subsequent production won the Tony for Best Revival. The character Henry is a playwright, and the play itself contains significant autobiographical elements. It is one of Stoppard's best and most intricate works - an intense examination of relationships and the nature of truth - always a good thing to meditate on in an election year.
With Stanley Spenger (Henry), Shifra Pride Raffel (Annie), Morgan Brown (Billy), Barry Eitel (Brodie), Al Badger (Max), Greer Jansen (Debbie), and Michele Delattre (Charlotte).
Music by John Palme and Alice Montgomery
February 14, 2012: Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello/Tom Stoppard
Directed by Anna Andersen
A noted actor and historian falls off his horse whilst portraying the long-deceased Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and wakes up believing himself to be the same. For twenty years his nephew Count de Nolli has been kept him ensconced in a Roman Villa, surrounded by actors playing the role of the Emperor's court. Finally the Count and others try to "cure" Henry one more time - only to be met by the pronouncement by Henry that he is not mad - he just prefers things the way they are - or were - as it were. Madness, tragedy, comedy, and absurdity collide in the classic Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author) play adapted masterfully by Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia).
About the Ticket Supplier: Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Actors Ensemble is the longest running theater organization in Berkeley-- going strong since 1957. All of productions are made possible through the efforts of volunteers, who provide the actors, the designers, the builders, the publicity, the behind-the-scenes production, and all the other things necessary to put on a first rate show.